issue, and then, you know, in terms of just sheer infrastructure, obama for america put together a technologically driven grassroots campaign unlike any that has been seen in the history of electioneering. republicans simply cannot catch up to that. they need a couple cycles to reband, repo significance, and rebuild. it's going to take quite some doing. i'm not sure if the same guy who sawed the coffin ought to be doing the autopsy. i think you need some smart people to come in and look at this. if you do the rebrand and repo significance. what's to say that base will accept and embrace it? i will tell you as an evangelical, i doubt it. >> professor peterson, i heard you coughing stwomewhat under yr breathe. >> goldie is right, it is going to take time. i'm not sure the political system we have has the patience for the republicans to overhaul themselves. they have to start with immigration reform, rooting out the tea party caucus within the house of representatives. i think that would go a long way towards where they need to be. they have to also understand, martin, that when you're talking about